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Kōno
Kōno, Kono or Kouno (written: 河野, 幸野, 高野 or 甲野) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Kōno Bairei (1844–1895), Japanese painter, book illustrator and art teacher *Kōno Hironaka (1849–1923), Japanese politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan *Kōno Togama (1844–1895), prewar Japanese politician and cabinet minister *Akitake Kōno (1911–1978), Japanese film actor. * Asahachi Kōno (1876–1943), Japanese photographer *Fumiyo Kōno (born 1968), Japanese manga artist *Fusako Kōno (born 1916), former Japanese diver *Hiromichi Kono (1905–1963), Japanese anthropologist and entomologist * Hyōichi Kōno (1958–2001), Japanese adventurer * Kohei Kono (born 1980), Japanese professional boxer *Marika Kōno (born 1994), Japanese voice actress and singer *Masayuki Kono (born 1980), Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist *, Japanese table tennis player *Rin Kono (born 1981), Japanese professional Go player *Shu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōru Kōno
was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. He was born on August 29 in Tenoji district in Osaka City, Japan. He graduated the Yao City Public Secondary School in 1927. It was around that time that he started to take landscape and still-life photographs. In 1929, he joined the Nadaya Camera Club and developed further as a photographer under the tutelage of Morimoto Kiyokata who was a member of the Naniwa Photography Club. Tampei Photography Club Kōno becomes a member of the Tampei Photography Club in 1931 through the introduction of Seiichiro Tokuda. There he is influenced by Nakaji Yasui and Bizan Ueda. Takeji Iwamiya wrote about an episode when he and Kōno were on an outdoor photo session hosted by the Tampei Photography Club in an essay that was included in Kōno's self-published photobook, titled ''Wadachi - The Works of Kōno Tōru.'' Iwamiya was one of the younger members of the club and he describes his t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōhei Kōno
is a Japanese politician and a former President of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 until August 2009, when the LDP lost its majority in the 2009 election. Kōno served as speaker for the longest length since the set up of House of Representatives in 1890. He was the president of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations from 1999 to 2013. . Retrieved 13 June 2012. History Kōno is the eldest son of , a former minis ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōno Hironaka
was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan. Biography Kōno was a native of Mutsu Province (modern-day Fukushima Prefecture), where his father, Iwamura Hidetoshi, was a samurai in the service of Miharu Domain, who supplemented his 100 '' koku'' income through trade in clothes, ''sake'' brewing and wholesale of marine products. Kōno was sent to Edo for studies in Confucianism and was drawn into the ''sonnō jōi'' movement. During the Boshin War, he fought against his family, whose Miharu Domain remained loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a member of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. Following the Meiji restoration, he served as an administrator in many locations in northern Japan for the new Meiji government, and became associated with Itagaki Taisuke and the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. With the Satsuma Rebellion, Kōno resisted attempts to recruit him to the side of Saigō Takamori, but instead joined Itagaki in forming the ''Aikokusha'' mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōno Togama
Viscount was a Japanese statesman in Meiji period Japan. Biography Kōno was born in Kōchi, Tosa Province (present-day Kōchi Prefecture) as the eldest son of a local low-ranking ''samurai''. He was sent to Edo in 1858 where (along with Mutsu Munemitsu) he studied under the noted Confucian scholar, Yasui Sokken. On his return to Tosa in 1861, he joined the movement organized by Takechi Hanpeita and Sakamoto Ryōma and became active in the ''Sonnō jōi'' movement. In 1862, along with 59 other Tosa samurai, he marched on Kyoto and Edo in an attempt to influence national policy, but was captured by security forces of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1863 and sentenced to six years in prison. Tortured while in prison, he refused to recant and his sentence was extended to life imprisonment. After the Meiji Restoration, Kōno was freed and was recruited by fellow Tosa countryman Gotō Shōjirō to assist Etō Shimpei in the administration of Osaka. With the establishment of the Samurai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taro Kono
is a Japanese politician serving as the Minister of Digital Affairs of Japan since August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform from 2015 to 2016 and from 2020 to 2021, and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is also a member of the House of Representatives representing Kanagawa's 15th district since 1996. Kono has developed a reputation as a political maverick, with a tendency to hold positions on issues contrary to his party. He is also known for his large following on social media and his fluency in English, having attended college in the United States. He also has been speculated as a potential future Prime Minister, running in the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election, but losing to Fumio Kishida in a second round run-off. Early life Taro Kono was born on 10 January 1963, in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, the oldest of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumiyo Kōno
, commonly romanized Fumiyo Kouno, is a Japanese manga artist from Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, known for her 2004 manga ''Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' and her 2007 manga ''In This Corner of the World'' which got an anime film adaptation in 2016 by MAPPA. Biography She was born in Hiroshima in 1968 and began drawing manga when she was in junior high school. She states that she began drawing manga because her parents would not often buy her manga. Kōno studied science at Hiroshima University and moved to Tokyo, becoming an assistant to Katsuyuki Toda, Aki Morino, and Fumiko Tanigawa. Kōno made her commercial debut in 1995 with ''Machikado Hana Da Yori''. She feels that Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko Fujio were among her early influences, but then she was inspired by Sanpei Shirato's literary style and at present, she takes inspiration from Yu Takita's versatility. She graduated from the University of the Air in 2001 with a major in Humanities. Works Selected works. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyōichi Kōno
was a Japanese adventurer, best known for circling Japan on bicycle, and traveling to the North Pole. He was born in the town of Ikata, Ehime, Japan. Kōno died in 2001 while attempting to walk from the North Pole back to his hometown. A memorial display entitled "Reaching Home" was erected at the Seto Agriculture Park in Ikata is a small peninsula town located in Nishiuwa District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 8,497 in 15638 households and a population density of 90 persons per km². The total area of the town is Following a rec ... to honor him. It includes a signpost noting the names, dates, and distances of locations he traveled to. It reads as follows: 1958 births 2001 deaths Japanese explorers People from Ehime Prefecture {{Explorer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akitake Kōno
was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Career Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include ''The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), ''The Life of Oharu'' (1952), ''Uget ... as well on television. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kono, Akitake 1911 births 1978 deaths People from Nagasaki Japanese male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunji Kōno
(born September 8, 1964) is a Japanese politician and the governor of Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. In 2014, he was re-elected for a second term as the Miyazaki governor. ''The Japan Times'', December 22, 2014. Biography Kōno was born on 8 September 1964 inKure, Hiroshima
is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...
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Kōno Bairei
was a Japanese painter, book illustrator, and art teacher. He was born (as Yasuda Bairei) and lived in Kyoto. He was a member of the broad Maruyama-Shijo school and was a master of kacho-e painting (depictions of birds and flowers) in the Meiji period of Japan. Biography In 1852, he went to study with the ''Maruyama-school'' painter, Nakajima Raisho (1796–1871). After Raisho's death, Bairei studied with the Shijo-school master Shiokawa Bunrin (1808–77). His work included flower prints, bird prints , and landscapes, with a touch of western realism. Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds was published in 1881. He opened an art school in 1880 and his students included Takeuchi Seihō, Kawai Gyokudō, and Uemura Shōen was the pseudonym of an artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her ''bijin-ga,'' or paintings of beautiful women, in the ''nihonga'' style, although sh .... Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marika Kōno
is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She was previously affiliated with the agency Mausu Promotion, but is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. Debuting as a voice actress in 2013, she played her first main role as Rin Kohana in the 2015 anime television series ''Seiyu's Life!''. She, together with the other main cast members of ''Seiyu's Life'', are also members of the music group Earphones. She is known for her roles as Yua Nakajima in ''Hinako Note'', and Silence Suzuka in ''Uma Musume Pretty Derby''. Biography Kouno was born in Tokyo on February 22, 1994. She is the second of three sisters; her older sister Rina is a dancer. As a child, she was already fond of reading aloud during elementary school classes. She first became interested in voice acting from watching anime series. After learning that the characters Pikachu from ''Pokémon'' and Chopper from ''One Piece'' were voiced by the same person, Ikue Ōtani, Kouno began to aspire to pursuing a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Kōno
is a Japanese diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... In 1936 she finished sixth in the 10 metre platform event and eighth in the 3 metre springboard competition. External links * * 1916 births Possibly living people Japanese female divers Olympic divers for Japan Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
